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Evidence Based Coaching Handbook Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients

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ISBN-10: 0471720860

ISBN-13: 9780471720867

Edition: 2006

Authors: Dianne R. Stober, Anthony M. Grant, Anthony Grant, Anthony M. Grant

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The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coachingThe Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each.Recognizing the special character of coaching-that the coaching process is non-medical, collaborative, and highly contextual-the authors lay out an evidence-based coaching model that allows practitioners to…    
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Book details

List price: $77.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/21/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

DIANNE STOBER, PHD, consults, teaches, and conducts research in the areas of coaching and adult learning. She is on the faculty of the Organizational Management/Organizational Development Master's Program at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. Trained as a clinical psychologist, she maintains an active coaching practice with individuals and organizations, while also consulting on designing and providing executive and managerial development programs. She can be reached at dstober@fielding.edu.ANTHONY M. GRANT, PHD, is the founder and Director of the world's first university-based Coaching Psychology Unit at the School of Psychology, in the University of Sydney,…    

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Single-Theory Perspectives
Coaching from the Humanistic Perspective
People Are Complex and the World Is Messy: A Behavior-Based Approach to Executive Coaching
Adult Development Theory and Executive Coaching Practice
Cognitive Coaching
Psychoanalytically Informed Executive Coaching
Integrative and Cross-Theory Approaches
An Integrative Goal-Focused Approach to Executive Coaching
An Adult Learning Approach to Coaching
Positive Psychology: The Science at the Heart of Coaching
Coaching from a Cultural Perspective
An Adventure-Based Framework for Coaching
Coaching from a Systemic Perspective: A Complex Adaptive Conversation
Toward a Contextual Approach to Coaching Models
Workplace and Executive Coaching: A Bibliography from the Scholarly Business Literature
Author Index
Subject Index